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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Mbarire",
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        "legal_name": "Cecily Mutitu Mbarire",
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    "content": "about this BPS, but we also appreciate the concrete and positive criticism that they have brought to it. It becomes critical that certain facts come out so that we can do better next time and see better improvement in terms of the budget-making process. Let me also congratulate the various departmental committees that sat down to listen to the Principal Secretaries and Cabinet Secretaries as they brought the budgets of the line Ministries and departments so that the same can go to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. There is a lot of energy towards that process. I like the energy with which the Members of the various committees, with their Chairs, put in terms of ensuring that this process went on seamlessly in the last one-and-a-half weeks or so. Many of us, whose political ideology is social democracy, are extremely happy with the big four agenda that has been stipulated or brought forward by the Jubilee Government. I am particularly extremely excited about the issue of food security being a key agenda item that this Government will push going forward. I am also extremely happy about the whole idea of provision of universal healthcare ensuring that we have accessible, quality and affordable healthcare for Kenyans across the nation. It takes me back to 2003 when the then Minister for Health tabled the Universal Healthcare Bill before this House. I remember the politics and debate that took place at that time. We had insurance companies that worked round the clock to make sure it never happens. A lot of dirty propaganda was waged against that Bill. I remember, at the end of it all, the then Minister for Health, Hon. Charity Ngilu, who is now the Governor of Kitui County, ended up carrying that baby alone as if it was hers alone and not the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) Government’s baby."
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